Lion One Metals is pleased to announce the following update on ongoing exploration at its Tuvatu Gold Project located near Nadi on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. The Company continues to confirm further resource potential and exploration upside at Tuvatu, while preparing for feasibility work and potential decision for a fast track to production. Metallurgical testing currently underway is expected to be completed in [...]
Lion One Metals is pleased to announce that it has commissioned mining services company Gekko Systems Pty. Ltd. of Ballarat, Australia, to conduct metallurgical testwork on its Tuvatu Gold Project on the island of Viti Levu, Fiji. The company has shipped a 300 kg sample of drill core composites to Australia for comminution, gravity, and flotation testwork. Results of the tests will indicate amenability to processing [...]
Lion One Metals is pleased to provide the following Bulk Development Area update on its Tuvatu Gold Project on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. The first 24 of 91 core holes from the Murau Area have been sampled with assays pending. This work is part of the Company's program of assaying extensive intervals of the 60,000 meters of drill core at the Tuvatu project that were not previously sampled. The Company's plan is to [...]
Lion One Metals is pleased to report results from concurrent trenching and drill core analysis programs at its Tuvatu Gold Project on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. Trench 7 exposed a wide interval of coexisting porphyry and epithermal gold mineralization averaging 3.96 g/t gold over 71 meters. The trench is located in the First Porphyry Bulk Development Area, geologically interpreted to represent the upper levels of a [...]
Lion One Metals is pleased to announce 2012 work plans for its Tuvatu gold project on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. Highlights of the 2011 work program were the discoveries of additional high grade surface stockwork zones, and confirmation of sufficient porphyry-style mineralization in drill core samples (see news releases dated March 22, May 27, and July 20, 2011) for the Company to justify commencing a work program [...]
Lion One Metals Chairman, Walter H. Berukoff, announced today that the Company has received the first results from a surface channel sampling (benching) from the ridges above the main Tuvatu gold system. This work has identified a vein stockwork system with extensive gold grades over wide widths. Previous exploration work in this area had focused on high grade veins from underground drilling 250 metres below this newly [...]